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Newspaper
The Valley Banner
Location
Elkton, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 2011
Page
5
Regina Gilley and staff thank Bib Brush Painters and Kyla Silver for hosting and selling stepping stones and sun catchers to support the Elkton Boys and Girls Club. The note expresses gratitude for community backing enabling outreach and services.
The event features old time crafts, coffee roasting demonstrations, and riding displays at Grand Caverns with a candlelight tour to Cathedral Hall. Lynn Coffee will sign books while cannons fire hourly and historic inscriptions line the caverns. Tickets are 25 each. about half of 100 sold, day cost 5 per carload. Call 249-5705 or 1-888-430-2283.
Author Jan Hensley collects photos for a no text pictorial history book titled Forever covering southern Page and eastern Rockingham counties. Pictures of all kinds are welcome, including portraits, family, school and church events, animals, and buildings. Call 298 8920 or email janhensley2000 yahoo.com to contribute.
Photographs by Dean Studio Harrisonburg depict Dayton Central telephone office exterior and interior switchboard from the 1930s. The two story brick Dayton branch at Main and College streets housed Harrisonburg Telephone Company. Interior view shows a single unit switchboard with cables connected by an operator. Pictured left to right, dated July 1935, are Miss Blanche Helms, Mrs Emma Callison and Miss Blanche Hartman.
The George Comer Cemetery will host a spring cleanup starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday May 21 with volunteers urged to bring yard tools. A brief business meeting is planned at 11 a.m. Call 298-1929 for more information.
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